Knecht Home Center Rapid City

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Your Hometown Lumber Yard Since 1928

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We are a modern company and pride ourselves on delivering the highest quality and best value to our customers. This philosophy has helped us grow into an industry leader, distributing a wide range of building materials and hardware. Our highly experienced employees are your friends and neighbors and take special pride in serving you. The Mead/Knecht family of stores includes: Mead Lumber, Knecht Home Centers, Thomae Lumber and Truss, Black Hills Truss, Great Plains Countertop and Ace Hardware’s in Canon City, Sheridan, and Rapid City. In addition to our ownership, we have over 750 associates who are committed to making Mead Lumber and Knecht Home Center our customer’s first choice for lumber, building materials, hardware, and trusses.

The key to our success is our associates, many of whom have made Mead and Knecht their workplace for life. Almost two dozen associates have more than 30 years of service with our company. The culture of our company, combined with our commitment to providing a safe yet fast paced work environment, solid growth opportunities, attractive compensation and fringe benefits, has created an outstanding work force that is very loyal and hardworking.


Thought we may share a little lumber yard/hardware store humor I found in the recent Readers Digest edition-

A guy walks into a hardware store and says, “ I want a chain saw that will cut down ten trees in an hour.” So the clerk sells him one. The next day, the customer comes in, upset. “This chain saw cut down only one little tree in an hour!” The clerk says, “Let me take a look.” He pulls the starter rope, the saw roars to life, and the customer screams, “What’s that noise!?”